Abstract
Bull ABC Vol 17 No 1 (2010) – 43 W ith the sixth-longest bird list of any African country, Angola harbours an exceptionally rich biodiversity. Add to this one of Africa’s highest bird conservation priorities—the Western Angola Endemic Bird Area (Stattersfield et al. 1998) and its biologically important scarp forests—and the biological importance of the country becomes unquestionable. During the 1960s and 1970s the country’s biodiversity was investigated, plant and animal collections established, and several reserves were appropriately managed (Huntley 1974), but 30 years of civil unrest have left conservation and research in Angola well behind that of other southern African countries. Basic information on species distributions is poor, and the network of reserves is dysfunctional. Recent peace and stability have provided new opportunities for improving the situation. As a first step, old reserves need to be re-established, knowledge of species distributions updated and Cataloguing the Lubango Bird Skin Collection: towards an atlas of Angolan bird distributions
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